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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davids_on)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: I need help understanding an SMTP problem
Message-ID: <4173@celit.fps.com>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:18:16 GMT
Reply-To: billd@fps.com (Bill Davids_on)
Organization: FPS Computing Inc., San Diego CA
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This is a weird one and I can't seem to gleen the appropriate info
from the RFC's.  I am used to running sendmail on BSD systems and now
I have to deal with a a VMS gateway running Wollogong (sp?) SMTP and
it's giving me hell.  Normally, when I send to xxx@yyy, sendmail
connects to yyy and does a RCPT-TO:xxx.  We send to the VMS gateway,
vax11 this way:

	xxx%yyy.decnet@vax11

Sendmail does a RCPT TO:xxx%yyy.decnet.  This is not acceptable to
the Wollogong software.  It wants to see RCPT TO:xxx%yyy.decnet@vax11.
Wollogong claims that the local machine is required and that I'm
wrong to send things the way I do.  Who's right?  Can someone please
point me to the appropriate pages of the appropriate RFC's (I've been
going through 821 and 822)?  I would think that vax11 should know who
it is (I know who I am :-) and not need the extra addressing.  It seems
unnecessarily redundant to me.

--Bill Davidson